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[Captivate General] Ikonomi:
I wasn't sure which GPS thread to post this in, but I suspect this is the proper one.

To start, I'm running stock firmware (never flashed), rooted, and using the settings from the GPS sticky: MS Based, Hot start, GPS Plus on, Dynamic accuracy on, Accuracy 50, Use SkyHook on, Custom config, supl.google.com, Server Port 7276, SUPL Secure Socket off.

Over the past two days I've noticed a strange behavior with my GPS. The longer the phone stays on after using the GPS, or perhaps the more often I activate the GPS, the worse the performance gets. When the phone first starts up, the GPS locks within 5-10 seconds using only Google Maps. It gives fairly good accuracy, with no blue circle of uncertainty, immediately.

If I close or switch away from Google Maps and go back, the GPS takes slightly longer to lock. The accuracy seems comparable. After several hours of the phone being powered on, the GPS will take several minutes to lock on, and will eventually cease working completely.

I posted in the AT&T Mark the Spot thread that my GPS was completely borked -- this was when the phone had been on for several days continuously. After a reboot, the GPS worked fine.

Examples of this behavior are as follows:

I wanted to use RunKeeper to record a run, but the GPS did not find a lock during the 7-minute walk to the park. I gave up, did my run, and after returning home and restarting the phone, the GPS locked in RunKeeper and in Google Maps almost immediately.

I was driving last night, and wanted to use Google Navigation for kicks. I opened RunKeeper to prime the GPS, but it couldn't get a lock. I opened Google Maps, which also could not lock. Google Navigation was hopeless as well. I left Navigation open for the entire 10 minute drive, during which time it could not get a GPS lock, and then restarted the phone. After that, Google Maps was able to get a GPS fix very quickly. Of course, this was after I had gotten where I was going.

Today, I went shopping with my mom. Again, GPS would not lock in the car, but after restarting the phone and opening Google Maps, it locked within seconds, with good accuracy. We shopped for around two and a half hours, and after that, the GPS took around 45 seconds to get a fix, with poor accuracy. Predictably, I restarted the phone, and was able to get good accuracy in Google Maps (no circle), even from inside a restaurant near a window.

All of these instances occurred with network-assisted location turned on, but these were actual GPS fixes, not cell tower fixes.

The other strange behavior I noticed is that the GPS seems to turn off or sleep when the screen either times out or is turned off with the power key. On phone wake up, the GPS has to re-lock. This seems very odd to me.
[Captivate General] carpboy:
10 meters is I think as good as it gets unless there is a WAAS connection available, then it is 5 meters.

I don't get all the golfers using GPS devices, the accuracy is not good enough for someone who is a reasonably skilled golfer. 10 yards is a club difference.
[Captivate General] drfubar:
For locks please turn off Dynamic Accuracy and set to 150. This will enable more sattelites to lock. It will not make your accuracy worse. Also, SUPL settigs have no effect on gps lock. Its only relevant for A-gps.
[Captivate General] carpboy:
The GPS will run for only three minutes when you turn this off.
[Captivate General] carpboy:
OK, I got the Holux today. Turned it on, paired it (no problems!) and in 10 seconds, inside, I had 9 sats LOCKED.

Running Bluetooth GPS Provider works just great - I have full GPS functionality.

First try I noticed the phone getting real hot in the car while running Trapster. In fact, even while charging the battery level was depleting.

I tried running Bluetooth GPS mouse instead and I noticed the battery level was stable, I think even increasing a little. However, the GPS response was very slow, up to 1 minute behind.

I then went back to BGPSP with Trapster in the background and it was better, even charging a little.

It seems BGPSP uses a bit of power and Trapster also seems to be a power hog.
[Captivate General] purav17:
I dont have the option of skyhook...How do i get that option?
[Captivate General] bames:
skyhook won't show up in your gps settings if your running a 2.2 rom.

Stock 2.1 should have it in your gps settings.
[Captivate General] skinien:
I think it's time we fight for a recall. The Nexus S was resubmitted to the FCC because Samsung needed to change the GPS antenna. Our hardware is bad.
[Captivate General] fatbas202:
LOL. It's funny that you think Samsung gives a **** about their customers. We've been complaining to them (along with droves of other Galaxy S customers) for months. The simple fact that they don't have FroYo out for the US is enough of an indication about how much they care.

Samsung is fully aware of the failure of their GPS and are completely unwilling to do a damn thing about it. If you don't believe me, read the e-mail I got from their tech support:

Sorry bud, but a recall won't be happening without a class action lawsuit. Samsung already got your money, so they don't give a flying monkey f*ck about you now.

If anyone from Samsung is lurking in these threads, *please* show me that I'm wrong. Please tell us if and when we can expect a GPS fix. Please give an explanation as to why this is taking so long and why we have not heard from your company. Feel free to add to this thread or to PM me. I would love to know that Samsung cares about supporting their products, but I have to draw conclusions based on evidence that I can see and all that I've seen for US customers is a giant middle finger.

My $.02.
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
"Also, disabling this option along with Use GPS satellites, powering off the device, restarting and re-enabling under clear view of the sky can help."

Kinda of like the networking tech help for my ISP saying take on end of the ethernet cable and swap it with the other end. :confused:

Apparently, switching which end a bad cable is plugged into makes a difference. :eek:
[Captivate General] bames:
for what its worth here is my first mytracks with gps using Axura5 which is the first rom that has vastly improved my gps performance and actually made turn by turn navigation usable. Also exported the mytracks to CSV and was never off more than 10 meters.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?clien...66175&t=h&z=14

In a solid brick building now. Locked within 15 seconds (alternating between 8-9 visible satellites with a lock on all but one. Outside i am generally seeing between 10-13 sats with locks on all but one. (before axura i was seeing the same amount of sats but getting locks on only 50-60% of them)

On performance test outside i was getting locks within an avg of 4.9 seconds and accuracy within 15 meters (settings = 5 tests for 20 seconds).

Just ran inside solid brick building same accuracy slower avg lock time of 13.9 seconds.
[Vibrant General] blazewit:
hey does anyone know if there has been any progress in getting a custom recovery

and a cm6 or froyo asop port up and running? i heard a group of devs was working on it this weekend.
[Vibrant General] tissimo:
I would say probably a couple of weeks before major headway is made. Be patient, and dont ask for ETAs.
[Vibrant General] sil3ncer7:
Cyanogens #1 rule.
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
follow cyanogen and wesgarner on twitter

wes does the leg work

cyanogen says when its good enough...
[Vibrant General] LovellKid:
http://goo.gl/IXXf

This just came from Wes Garners twitter. As you can see they are working on it....
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
Looks like all work is paused for the Galaxy S. I wonder why.

"Official Samsung Vibrant CM team: @wesgarner and @scepterr http://bit.ly/cmprogress (sorry for the massive amounts of tweets)

5 minutes ago via web"

Well one hurdle down.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
And Koush is working on clockworkmod for the galaxy s line as well...
[Vibrant General] speedysilwady:
is it sad that ive been on the modding scene for nearly a year now and i dont know what ETA stands for? lol
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Estimated Time of Arrival (or at least it fits and means the same thing...)
[Vibrant General] speedysilwady:
oooh thank you haha that makes a ton of sense now lmao, sorry for the lateness, im usually good at deciphering acronyms on my own but this one had me stumped lol
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
So as I mentioned in the battery life thread, in the T-Mo store, the Galaxy was reporting 2d5h on and still had 32% left in the tank. Obviously that is without SetCPU or anything and people have to have been playing with it. Even not, 30%/day not being touched is pretty good. What have you guys done for battery life? Have you noticed the "ramp up" time that is always claimed by cell phone manufacturers? Mine has sucked today but I've been beating the hell out of it. I'm going to charge it and let it stay unplugged overnight to see what the standby drain is but what is everyone doing? Have you messed with SetCPU at all?

Thx
[Vibrant General] Shagman68:
Who cares, I'm buying 2 spare batteries from Ebay, just like I had for my G1. I can go thru all 3 batteries on my G1 while at work for 10hrs. So, I'm assuming I will get similar results.
[Vibrant General] iunlock:
Haha I know what you mean. That's what I love about having a removable battery. Who cares right? Swap it out and you're good.

As for my experience, the battery live has been good. The battery status bar up top is not accurate though. Similar to the reception (bar) problem how it shows no bars but you actually have great signal. I'm sure a software fix will be available soon for this. Very minor.

Here are some things you can do to improve battery life:

Remove all unnecessary widgets off your screen. I had an analog clock on there and when I removed it, I noticed better battery life just from that. No joke.

Turn off the live wallpapers. Those drain battery too.

Turn off wifi if not using it

Turn off bluetooth

Set the notifications to refresh at a longer interval instead of like every 5 mins etc...

If you're really nit picky, check "use only 2g networks..." - I personally wouldn't.

Adjust your screen to the lowest brightness. I love that it's an SAMOLED screen, because I could never get by with the lowest setting on other lcd screens.

Hope this helps man...enjoy!
[Vibrant General] iunlock:
By the way....regarding non-OEM batteries....I do notice that they are all 1500mAh (like oem), but I've always had a stigma about putting generic batteries into expensive devices.

I guess where my stigma comes from is due to my past experience with my digital camera, when I took photos of a wedding and my files got corrupted. My only explanation was because I was using a non-oem battery, because ever since that I've only used oem batteries along with that same memory card and have never had a problem since. It's been 3 years.

Since the non-oem batteries are 1500mAh, it shouldn't matter right? Now that I think about it, I do remember the camera batteries being of a higher mAh than the original battery...I know this only has to do with the capacity, but as for the voltage output, could there have been a strange surge to cause the corruption?

I know I'm just being paranoid, but just thought I'd get some input from those who know about the mechanics of batteries and the likelihood of any malfunction due to it being a cheap non-oem battery made in china.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
[Vibrant General] nick_karstedt:
My biggest battery drain was use wireless networks was disabled by default. All apps that tried to get my location therefore turned on GPS. One widget was bugged and would keep using GPS, killing my battery overnight. Uninstalled the widget and enabled use wireless networks and only lost a percent or two overnight. Make sure the GPS icon is not consistently on when not using Google Maps and whatnot.
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
This didn't really do anything for me. Under usage it definitely uses less battery than my N1 but standby SUCKS. How did the one in the store get 2+ days. I switched from GSM/CDMA Auto PRL to just GSM Auto PRL. I am switching back. WCDMA Preferred actually got me better battery on the N1.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
The Amps and Volts are important, but in a battery is only a small part of it. The quality matters, the drain matter, it's max input matters, it's sensitivity to fluctuation, sensitivity to over charge... etc etc etc...

That being said, most modern devices these days have a lot of internal fail safes that should try to stop anything crazy from happening... because really the battery could have any amount of amp hours rated to it, how much it can and will output is what matters though. You could theoretically make a battery the size of a car battery for the thing that with 1500AH (aka 1,500,000mAH) would give you a retarded amount of standby time as long as it was rated about the same on everything else... although charge that thing wrong and you would have a pretty cool fireball...
[Vibrant General] jaker.the.skater:
an app called juice defender seems to work pretty good for me on the vibrant (ultimate juice is the paid version with all the features). I previously used it on my cliq and had good results also.

what it does is disables apn and/or wifi and you choose what intervals it comes back on. example - you could have it come on every 15 minutes for 1 minute at a time to complete necessary syncs. you can also set up night schedules etc.

I would recommend this app if you're lookin to save some battery. it also has a little widget to show you how much battery you have saved. not sure how accurate that is though. good luck!

sent from my samsung vibrant
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
I've used this but it is a little buggy. I also need live data. Point is results shouldn't be this inconsistent. I need to figure out what that store was doing!
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
Anyone else?
[Vibrant General] SiL3nTKiLL:
yeah i kinda want to know all this, getting mine pretty soon!
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Is it cool to use the home charger for the nexus one AND the Galaxy interchangeably?

I ask because I'm ignorant to the amps/differences. It would be lovely to keep one charger at home, and one at work.
[Vibrant General] raduque:
I stopped caring. As long as it has enough to charge to stay on between unplugging it in the morning, and plugging it up at night, I'm golden. I've had the phone since launch, and I've only charged it up twice, so that's about two days between charges. I got it with a roughly 60% charged battery.

I use BatteryLife by Curvefish to see my battery usage.

Galaxy S/Vibrant charger is 5v @ .7A. I think I read that the N1 wall charger is 5v @ 1A. It'll charge a little faster, and will probably heat up the battery more, but it shouldn't destroy the phone. I'm sure somebody smarter will correct me, though. ;)
[EVO 4G Accessories] Crossrocker:
I put it on in the car and lost the instructions how do I take it off? I put a coin into the little spot. and it only opened that side

Nvm I got it
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
haha, i put it on my phone at best buy and then i walked around the store for the next hour trying to get it off. when i finally found an employee that knew how to take it off and he showed me i felt like a dumb ass!
[EVO 4G Accessories] rekphiv:
So then how do you take it off?.....
[EVO 4G Accessories] Crossrocker:
Haha yeah. You gotta twist the coin in the coin slot

Sent from my evo using the XDA app
[EVO 4G Accessories] Alanmw86:
Mine never stays together now, enjoy it while it lasts.

I've taken my case off maybe a dozen times, and now it slides apart just depending on how I hold it, Constant irritation.

cant wait till the otterbox or ballistic's case is out.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Crossrocker:
Mines starting to feel loose I'm about to just take it off and use the zagg shield for the back
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] luminiz:
Strange but true wtf if happening....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Serris:
newest cyanogen 5.0.8. rev 2.5 has wi-fi corrupted
[Android Apps and Games] johnny quest:
I'm new to the Android world and my friend showed me this app its called "Homescreen 3d" and it looked really cool. I bought it in the market and all it shows is blank white boxes floating around. What can I do to make it work? or should I just ask for a refund?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tech_Boy:
Hey guys,

I was hoping someone here could help me out. I just got my Nexus one Today, and I am charging it as we speak. But anyways I was playing around with it while it charges and it randomly crashes and restarts on me. I already did the auto update over the air to FROYO, but it is still doing the same thing. Also it seems to do it mainly in apps that use the gps, for example the compass app will do it every time.

It took me a month to get this phone to me in Costa Rica, and it would be way outside my available time and budget to get it replaced. So I hope it is a software problem, maybe some way to do a swipe or something.

PS: I already tried wiping it from the settings options, but it didn't help. Also I would like to root this phone, but I am to afraid now as I don't know if there is a hardware problem with it.

Thanks for you help, it is much appreciated!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMaverick50:
I think random reboots are standard on the nexus. Mines stock and I've had the problem since I got it. But it only happens every couple days or so so im not too worried. How often is yours rebooting?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tech_Boy:
No this is every 5min.

But I think I figured it out. First off I realized it only happened with sim card in. Then I realized it only happened when I forced the WCDMA, which I need for 3g in Costa Rica. Then I realized that if I enabled roaming, even though I am not, and Left WCDMA on forced, it also stoped. So that is what I did, and it has been going for 30min now. Fingers crossed.

I am still going to get the official Froyo and place it on the sd card then wipe in recovery and update. Just for safety.

So yeah Looks like software issue. Which is really good for me! If it keeps working I am going to root it soon, can't stand that white notification bar
[Android Apps and Games] hah2110:
Are there any video chat apps that work on Android with the rear-cam whether it is Skype based to a computer or phone-to-phone?
[Android Apps and Games] boodies:
i'd also like to know if i can video chat with the rear cam, even if it means I don't see anything. Atleast the other party will be able to see me.
[Android Apps and Games] boodies:
anyone?

thanks~
[Android Apps and Games] hah2110:
Fring, YAH!
[Android Apps and Games] mrono:
Fring blows, and they removed skype support so it's useless now. Only thing I would use it for is chatting from mobile to mobile for video chat
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Well I never thought I would find myself contributing anything to XDA-Dev but I liked these icons so much I decided to share!

These icons are either hand made by myself, or edited from various sources. They feature a transparent background, so they should work well with most statusbar's out there. I am currently working on finishing the blue style icons across the board, and perhaps the purple as well (like the battery).

I have tested these on

VanillaEclaire 4 and FroydVillan 1.1

, and these work without MetaMorph etc etc.

These are fairly simple to install:

- Pull your framework-res.apk (should be in /system/framework) to the folder of your choice.

- Open framework-res.apk with WinRAR or 7zip and navigate to res\drawable-mdpi (some may be called drawable-hdpi). Just find the .png files that match the ones in my zip files.

- Drag your favourite .png files into the WinRAR/7zip window and click OK to save

- Push updated framework-res.apk to your device and reboot. (adb remount, then, adb push ..., adb reboot)

- If you wish to include the gmail, email, or sms icons like in the screenshot, please also update gmail.apk, email.apk, mms.apk as appropriate!

Update: Pictures! Tons more icons!

Update 2: Vending.apk icons (Market download notifications)

See post

Mass spam of the icons, pick and choose!

Disclaimer:

Please update the filenames of the .png's as appropriate. I have created/included several copies that can be used as you please, so the names don't always match the .apk files.

Please make backups before pushing to /system

I have read posts on this forum regarding editing .apk files and the need to re-sign them, or issues with endless reboots after editing .apk files. I used WinRAR and did not create a new framework file, only edited it. I have had 0 issues.

Mega pack attachment below contains all icons from the other 3 zip files!

Update: Pink/Purple pack!
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Reserved.

Hopefully I can upload pictures now.

Credits:

istockphoto.com

psdgraphics.com

My brother for helping me learn to use photoshop!
[Android Themes] itzjen:
I can't get it to work? this what I get

E:Wrong digest:

system/framework/framework-res.apk

E:Verification failed

=[

I'll keep trying.I really wanna see a purple battery instead of green or blue

<3
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Hi Jen, sorry was this when you were pushing or pulling the file? Rebooting?

I use a vanilla rom, and the location of framework-res.apk is exactly where you mentioned. I use a program called "ADB File Explorer" to find things on my device.
[Android Themes] itzjen:
When I was pushing in files..

I haven't tried it since I last posted,just don't have the time at the momment i'll give it another try tomorrow..But im really excited on getting this to work <3 i've been looking for something like this for the longest.
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Ok sounds good! If it keeps failing to push, try ADB file explorer:

http://code.google.com/p/adb-file-explorer/downloads/list
[Android Themes] fxn:
Jen, you're not repacking the apk are you? Just need to update, If you look at my sig i've made a video on how to update images on the phone, might help =o)

SpeeDemon, I really like your battery icons, would it be ok to use them on my next video? I'm making a video on how to change the look of the battery status bar icon and rather than making crappy images myself would like to use your ones, I would of course give credit to you for the icons.

.FxN
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Hey, sure thing fxn, go wild!
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Bump for huge update! Still more to come!!!
[Android Themes] Soul_Est:
These are superb SpeeDemon! Mind if I use a few of them in a theme I'm looking into creating?
[Android Themes] SLX69:
Beautiful! Gonna try them ASAP! Thanks!
[Android Themes] :
Absolutely fantastic work, muchly appreciated!

I have one small request… Could you make a blue Alarm Clock status bar icon please? Its the only thing left white on my system and looks weird lol
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Please, feel free, thank you!

Thank you! Lemme know how they work out. Especially if you have a dark statusbar as I havent tested them on dark.

How's this? Added some silver colour to the trim as it seems to fit the style.
[Android Themes] :
That looks stunning!

By the way I'm using a black status bar and the electric blue set just fyi.
[Android Themes] vineet.rox:
not working on my galaxy spica!! is there any resolution problem..
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
Can you please elaborate for me? Are you getting error messages?

How did you update your .apk files and push them back to your device?

Thanks for your interest in the icons!
[Android Themes] dupont@et-eller-andet.dk:
HTC Desire

Hi, first of nice icons :)

Second, do I need to put another rom on my Desire ???

It's running with what ever it came with.

Dennis
[Android Themes] x10i DauL:
can i push my framework.apk without adb?

like with root explorer?

kind regards DauL